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Originally Posted by Chewie71  As far as I can tell, that's just the way BES works...regardless of what you are syncing the Blackberry devices to (Exchange, GW, Zimbra, etc....). The only "extra" piece required for Zimbra is the ZCB.
I don't think the Blackberry devices themselves ever talk directly to the BES server. When they register, an email goes from the device to RIM servers, then to their Inbox. BES/ZCB picks the registration email out of the Inbox and activates the device. Everything is pushed from BES to the device.
There are users running NE on CentOS...out of "official" support of course...but they say it works fine.
If I had to guess, you'll be waiting a looooong time before BES ever runs on anything other than Windows. Their biggest market is Exchange.... I don't like Windows much either, but there are some things that only run on Windows...and the "important" users with Blackberry devices aren't much into waiting for something that may never happen. 
Matt |
well said. even if RIM decided to start a linux port of BES, how long do you think that it would take to perform the engineering and QA along with setting up the infrastructure for tech support and training everyone on how to deal with the new platform? that doesn't even include the connector portion for ZCB which would have to be rewritten (not ported) to linux once a stable enough development BES is available on that platform. i understand the reasoning for hoping for a linux port but it doesn't make a lot of business sense to hold out until that happens...especially since RIM has not even agreed to it. i know of one very large enterprise that wants to push for a linux port but they are biting the bullet and bringing up a ZCB instance on a windows machine (the only windows machine in their intranet) so that their employees can immediately start using blackberry devices.